i'm kind of condemned to always watch spn late
(i never use this icon any more. it has nothing to do with anything.)
i've now seen spn 8x10 and i don't know how i feel about it. mostly "that was the easiest resolution in the history of ever". i mean, dean says he's tired of fighting, he tells sam "go back to amelia, possibly i was jealous, one of us should be happy, but you're either all in or all out", sam takes a walk to clear his head, and that's it? sam stays with dean, dean takes his own advice (which i liked!) and says goodbye to benny, now everything's cool? i know the boys were never talkers when it came to their hurts and their feelings, but seriously, that's it? i'm relieved as hell that it seems to be the end of the sam/amelia storyline (it was soapy and shippy in a way the show really isn't, and it was boring, and the actress who plays amelia looked SO MUCH like myka from warehouse 13 that i kept expecting them to be the same person), and while i liked benny i'm not sorry he's gone - if nothing else, dean telling him goodbye seems to suggest that dean realized his relationship with benny was a problem for sam, the way that sam's relationship with amelia was a problem for him, and if he's going to expect sam to move on from amelia if he hangs around, and if he genuinely means to mend fences, he knows he has to take a step too. so both boys have cut ties and, what, now they can be around each other? that was seriously way too easy.
not that i mind, tho, when it comes down to it. i cannot stand watching episode after episode where the boys are at each other's throats and do nothing but bitch and snipe and distrust and just... HATE each other - like to the point where if they were actual people i actually know, i'd tell them to divide their stuff and walk away from each other and just give it up for good - and i hated the way they made sam so unsympathetic. and the ptb kinda like to take the quick way out of really difficult interpersonal stuff. and i'm not sorry to see the end of amelia.
and can i just say, she comes by sam's motel room, tells him she's got a husband who loves her, she can't stop thinking about sam, why did he have to come back, etc etc, and then she sleeps with him and seems to kind of blame him for making her fall into bed with him. which... no. you had a choice, honey, and if you want to blame anyone for making you unfaithful to your husband, you only have to look in a mirror. i was never quite sold on her and sam's great healing love for each other anyway.
and hey, push comes to shove, he's going to pick saving the world, hunting things, and apparently mending fences with his brother over her. which, you know, that's kind of the point.
i was kind of worried the ptb would do something stupid and contrived so that when sam and amelia's two days of thinking about it was up, something would have happened so that he couldn't go back to her even if he wanted to, so that he'd cut her out of his life by default. i quite like that they didn't do that, that he actually had a choice.
i liked castiel randomly healing a baby, and not just because the baby was very cute. i also liked that the baby's mom seemed grateful when he did it and then baffled when he suddenly wasn't there, but she didn't freak out and nothing horrible happened.
also castiel flashing back to naomi pointing drills at his face just made me wonder if that's the angel version of an alien abduction. did she probe him too? heh.
and the burning bush torching the poor guy who heard it, i kinda liked that. i mean, not because someone ended up in the burn unit, but because come on, a burning bush is supposed to reveal dictates from god. it's not supposed to attack you. dean referring to the guy being ambushed made me giggle.
and i always like seeing kevin, altho i feel really bad for him. being a prophet sucks!
and there's an angel tablet too? surprise!
i'm just not sure if i overall liked the episode or not. some of it i liked, some of it i didn't, mostly i guess i'm just glad that - as easy as it seems to have been - sam and dean have made some kind of peace with each other and have basically cut off their past relationships. no more flashbacks! yay!
i hung out with my sister for a while today, and now i have a cupcake, raisins (for oatmeal-raisin cookies), and blueberries (for muffins). and frozen tamales from trader joe's, because why not. tomorrow i shall bake!
i have learned that onceandfuturetempjob is STILL not quite ready for me, on account of the legal department has to sign off or something, and everyone's frustrated about this except apparently whoever has the power to actually do something about it. so i may or may not start on wednesday, and meanwhile i feel like i wasted all my time off. i haven't written my picfor1000 fic, i haven't started my bigbang or even done any research for it, i haven't even swept and dusted! but mostly i haven't started my bigbang yet. oh, self, what is wrong with you??
now i'm watching the following, the new serial killer show with kevin bacon and james purefoy, and so far there've been a bunch of cliches but otherwise i don't dislike it. it's not as creepy as i was expecting.
i've now seen spn 8x10 and i don't know how i feel about it. mostly "that was the easiest resolution in the history of ever". i mean, dean says he's tired of fighting, he tells sam "go back to amelia, possibly i was jealous, one of us should be happy, but you're either all in or all out", sam takes a walk to clear his head, and that's it? sam stays with dean, dean takes his own advice (which i liked!) and says goodbye to benny, now everything's cool? i know the boys were never talkers when it came to their hurts and their feelings, but seriously, that's it? i'm relieved as hell that it seems to be the end of the sam/amelia storyline (it was soapy and shippy in a way the show really isn't, and it was boring, and the actress who plays amelia looked SO MUCH like myka from warehouse 13 that i kept expecting them to be the same person), and while i liked benny i'm not sorry he's gone - if nothing else, dean telling him goodbye seems to suggest that dean realized his relationship with benny was a problem for sam, the way that sam's relationship with amelia was a problem for him, and if he's going to expect sam to move on from amelia if he hangs around, and if he genuinely means to mend fences, he knows he has to take a step too. so both boys have cut ties and, what, now they can be around each other? that was seriously way too easy.
not that i mind, tho, when it comes down to it. i cannot stand watching episode after episode where the boys are at each other's throats and do nothing but bitch and snipe and distrust and just... HATE each other - like to the point where if they were actual people i actually know, i'd tell them to divide their stuff and walk away from each other and just give it up for good - and i hated the way they made sam so unsympathetic. and the ptb kinda like to take the quick way out of really difficult interpersonal stuff. and i'm not sorry to see the end of amelia.
and can i just say, she comes by sam's motel room, tells him she's got a husband who loves her, she can't stop thinking about sam, why did he have to come back, etc etc, and then she sleeps with him and seems to kind of blame him for making her fall into bed with him. which... no. you had a choice, honey, and if you want to blame anyone for making you unfaithful to your husband, you only have to look in a mirror. i was never quite sold on her and sam's great healing love for each other anyway.
and hey, push comes to shove, he's going to pick saving the world, hunting things, and apparently mending fences with his brother over her. which, you know, that's kind of the point.
i was kind of worried the ptb would do something stupid and contrived so that when sam and amelia's two days of thinking about it was up, something would have happened so that he couldn't go back to her even if he wanted to, so that he'd cut her out of his life by default. i quite like that they didn't do that, that he actually had a choice.
i liked castiel randomly healing a baby, and not just because the baby was very cute. i also liked that the baby's mom seemed grateful when he did it and then baffled when he suddenly wasn't there, but she didn't freak out and nothing horrible happened.
also castiel flashing back to naomi pointing drills at his face just made me wonder if that's the angel version of an alien abduction. did she probe him too? heh.
and the burning bush torching the poor guy who heard it, i kinda liked that. i mean, not because someone ended up in the burn unit, but because come on, a burning bush is supposed to reveal dictates from god. it's not supposed to attack you. dean referring to the guy being ambushed made me giggle.
and i always like seeing kevin, altho i feel really bad for him. being a prophet sucks!
and there's an angel tablet too? surprise!
i'm just not sure if i overall liked the episode or not. some of it i liked, some of it i didn't, mostly i guess i'm just glad that - as easy as it seems to have been - sam and dean have made some kind of peace with each other and have basically cut off their past relationships. no more flashbacks! yay!
i hung out with my sister for a while today, and now i have a cupcake, raisins (for oatmeal-raisin cookies), and blueberries (for muffins). and frozen tamales from trader joe's, because why not. tomorrow i shall bake!
i have learned that onceandfuturetempjob is STILL not quite ready for me, on account of the legal department has to sign off or something, and everyone's frustrated about this except apparently whoever has the power to actually do something about it. so i may or may not start on wednesday, and meanwhile i feel like i wasted all my time off. i haven't written my picfor1000 fic, i haven't started my bigbang or even done any research for it, i haven't even swept and dusted! but mostly i haven't started my bigbang yet. oh, self, what is wrong with you??
now i'm watching the following, the new serial killer show with kevin bacon and james purefoy, and so far there've been a bunch of cliches but otherwise i don't dislike it. it's not as creepy as i was expecting.